QGIS is an entirely Open Source project. QGIS development is carried out
largely by a group of volunteers, that in time have built up a large, valuable
and useful code base, free to use and improve for everybody. As a result, you
have free access to the source code and binaries that we provide on our web
site. As a result of this volunteer approach, a number of tasks, less
interesting or important for the developers, are sometimes left behind. In
addition, promoting QGIS requires our participation at congresses and
conferences and the production of information material, sometimes very
expensive for volunteer developers.

Meanwhile, many organizations have made an investment in using QGIS as part of
their operations, but have not had a way to directly contribute to the success
and long-term health of the project.

We would like to extend our activities and improve the quality of QGIS. Your
financial contribution will support the maintenance, improvement, and promotion
of QGIS. Sponsorship is not a way for individuals to control the development of
the project, but rather a way of ensuring the longevity and overall health of
the project.

With your donations we are able to:

fund developer meetings, starting from that in Vienna, autumn 2009. Users donations contributed effectively to the great success of the meetings, allowing us to fund travel and accommodation costs of key developers

support pre-release bugfixing, in order to improve the reliability of each new QGIS version.

Sponsors can sponsor QGIS for any amount of money of at least 500 €/700 US$.
Sponsorships last one year, after which they may be continued with a new
payment, or allowed to lapse. At or above the following levels a sponsor will
be designated as being one of the following class:

Donations can be of any amount, through the Make A Donation PayPal link
provided in the left-hand menu of this website or through our bank account
(write us for details: cavallini@faunalia.it). Even a small donation can
make a big difference and help to reach important project goals!

If you wish to send us a larger donation, you are strongly encouraged to use
the bank account rather than PayPal.

Donations to QGIS are tax-deductible in several countries. Please refer to your local tax office for details.

The sponsorship funds will be spent to directly improve the code base of the
project, to fund tasks that generally receive less attention from developers,
and to fund work on peripheral project tasks so that core contributors can
focus efforts on QGIS improvements. As an example, we would like to fund the
following project activities:

fund developers to work on specific aspects of QGIS including implementing
new features and fixing bugs

two QGIS Developer Meeting per year, where we can meet in person and brainstorm,
fix bugs and hold a week of intensive QGIS development work. Most QGIS
developers will happily donate their time to such events, but we are looking
for sponsors to cover travel, accommodation and subsistence costs for these
events

attendance to other conferences. There are several high profile conferences
held each year (such as the http://www.foss4g.org), and we would like to be
able to fund QGIS team members to represent QGIS at important conferences, to
promote it among users and raise interest and solicit code contributions from
other developers

Decisions on spending of sponsorship funds will be made by the QGIS Project Steering Committee.

Note

We regret that we cannot accept ‘earmarked’ funding as it creates
many administrative issues. If you are interested in funding specific aspects
of QGIS development, we encourage you to allocate additional human resources to
the project, e.g. hiring a developer, or participating to our bug fixing
initiative.

Warning

Acceptance of sponsorship offers is at the discretion of the QGIS
PSC. We reserve the right to decline offers of sponsorship if the sponsoring
organisation or party seems to be at odds with the ethos of our project. For
example offers from marketing companies that have nothing to do with GIS /
spatial services, or offers where we have reason to believe the presence of
the sponsors logo and marketing materials on our site and other materials will
degrade the experience of our users will be declined.

Organizations or individuals interested in sponsoring the QGIS project should
contact the QGIS PSC Finance and Marketing advisor, Paolo Cavallini at:
cavallini@faunalia.it (+39-348-3801953) with questions, or to make arrangements.